Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-06-07
FAITH YOUR O.vS Tosvx..
How California Towns are
Doomed.

| The Sacramento RecoId-Dnlo
says:
Have faith in your home city
Do nothing to depreciate its values,
that honesty and justice do not
command Of you. Do not find
fault with little ills. Look beyond
the present and to the possible for
your city. Get above the clouds Of
doubt into the pure atmosphere of
resolution to accomplish. Frown
down GROWERS and grum blers, en-
courage the public-spirited; con-
graduate every man who succeeds,
no matter if you were his rival
Don't cheaper your place by un-
derbidding in the presence of the
stranger. Let no housekeeper hear
you belittle my purchases he has
made. To help your town, cease
shouting that this or that must be
done before there can be any boom.
Don attempt to be prophetic of
i'll; evil comes soon enough to all
and in plenty. Believe in your
town; stick to it; help it by action,
by word, by example. Above all
join the Improvement AssocIa-
ton, and pay your fee at once to
set the wheels in motion.
One of the practical methods of
aiding the town or city of ones
home is to buy of the producers
and dealers of the place. One of
the surest methods of discredlting
the home town and crippling its
energies Is to go abroad for that
which we can as we'll procure at
home. There is a mutually Of in
terest between dealers and people
that must be preserved if both
would prosper. The merchant and
manufacturer cannot maintain their
business. and contribute their
share to the general wea,, except
they receive fair support at tie
hands of their DeIG hOors, even
where by sending abroad some
small saving may be effected.
W nile the right 20 buy at the best
price advantage Il not even open to
criticism, 1t may well De doubted
If the policy Is q WISE one. The
needs should De great, aud the
gains greater, hat lnuuce the cltl
zen making Ills 1vlng III the
place Ol his re>lucHce 10 pass by
the doors of his home traders, and
purchase In the market Ihat con
tributes nothing to hin.
OHe instance, IN itself small, but
illustrative, is recorded of West
err city to which came troupe OF
vocalists of merit, and capable of
giving a delightful entertainment
But the posters, handbiiis, tickets,
dodgers and printed etcetera of the
troupe bore evidence of having
been prepared for the occasion in
city somewhat distant, and not even
commercially related to the town
which was asked to contribute to
the troupe some hundreds of its
money. The record Is, that actu
aged by a sense OF Loyalty TO their
own, aud without any preconcert,
the people renamed at home, and
left the singers to empty benches
aud an emptier purse 1t L. not TO
be denied that the lesson was well
deserved, or that the sentiment of
that community was not praise
worthy.
Another instance Is recorded in a
town somewhat farther East, where
a newly-arriyed merchant without
any special excuse beyond the fact
that he saved a very few dollars on
a very large contract, fitted up an
extensive establishment with ma
terial purchased at mills in another
market place. ~he resul, was a
very general patronage of his
house as to compel the dealer to re-
tire to community less loyal to its
own workers.